About the Artwork
Salvator Mundi
16th century
Giampetrino
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Italian
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Paint on wood panel
Unframed: 25 3/4 × 19 inches (65.4 × 48.3 cm) Framed: 35 1/2 × 28 3/4 × 2 7/8 inches (90.2 × 73 × 7.3 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.21
Public Domain
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Provenance
John Parke [-1821] (London, England);June 16, 1821, auctioned (withdrawn) by John Parke at (Christie's, London, England), lot 63;
May 7, 1836, auctioned by son of John Parke at (Christie's, London, England), lot 47;
April 6, 1889, auctioned by Mrs. Cox at (Christie's, London, England), lot 134;
April 6, 1889, purchased by Dearn, on behalf James Scripps [1835-1906] (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue of the Genuine and Highly Valuable Cabinet of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch Pictures, of a Well-Known Amateur, Mr. Parke. Sales cat., Christie's. London, June 16, 1821, p. 7, no. 63 [as by Leonard da Vinci].
Catalogue of Dutch & Flemish Pictures and a Few Modern Pictures, the Property of Major Corbett-Winder; A Small Collection of Ancient and Modern Pictures of T.S. Starkey, Esq., of Huttons Ambo, York; and others from Different Private Collections. Sales cat., Christie, Manson & Woods. London, April 6, 1889, p. 17, no. 134 [annotated, "62"].
Scripps, James E., ed. Catalogue of the Scripps Collection of Old Masters. Detroit, 1889, pp. 15–16, no. 10 [as by Leonardo da Vinci (attributed to)].
"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 150 [as attributed to Leonardo da Vinci].
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, pp. 10-11 [as attributed to Leonardo DaVinci].
Berenson, Bernard. North Italian Masters of the Renaissance. New York, 1907, p. 274 [as by Marco D'Oggione].
Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1910, p. 17, no. 11 [as by Leonardo da Vinci (attributed to)].
Burroughs, C. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 35, no. 23 [as by Giampietrino].
Suida, Wilhelm. Leonardo und sein Kreis. Munich, 1929, p. 293 [as by Marco D'Oggione].
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 229 [as "The Savior" by Gianpietrino].
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1944, p. 53, no. 543 [as by Giampetrino].
Leonard da Vinci. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. Los Angeles, 1949, pp. 85–86, no. 27, (pl. 27) [as by Salai (?)].
Heydenreich, Ludwig. Leonardo da Vinci, vol. 1. New York, 1954, p. 203; English ed., 1954, p. 184 [as by Unknown Copyist, dated ca. 1500/1506].
Huyghe, Rene. Art and the Spirit of Man. New York, 1962, pp. 224–225 [as by Giampetrino].
Heydenreich, Ludwig H. "Leonardo's Salvator Mundi." Raccolta Vinciana 20 (1964): pp. 83–109; p. 97 (ill.) [as an accurate early copy of Leonardo's original composition].
Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Check List of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 45.
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 180 [as by Andrea Salai].
Snow-Smith, Joanne. "The Salvator Mundi of Leonardo da Vinci." Arte Lombarda, no. 50 (1978): pp. 69–81; pp. 69, 73 (ill.) [as by Giampetrino].
Vezzosi, Alessandro. La Raccolta Leonardesca della Contessa de Béhague. Exh. cat., Castello dei Conti Guidi. Vinci, 1980, pp. 26 (ill.), 28.
Snow-Smith, Joanne. The Salvator Mundi of Leonardo da Vinci. Seattle, 1982, pp. 11, 15 (ill.) [dated ca. 1511].
Trutty-Coohill, Patricia. "Studies in the School Of Leonardo Da Vinci: Paintings in Public Collections in the United States With A Chronology Of the Activity Of Leonardo And His Pupils And Catalogue Of Auction Sales." Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1982, pp. 144–157 [unpublished].
Zeri, Federico, and Francesco Rossi. La Raccolta Morelli: nell'Accademia Carrara. Milan, 1986, p. 187, no. 68.
Sedini, Domenico. Marco d'Oggino: tradizione e rinnovamento in Lombardia tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento. Milan, 1989, pp. 196–197, no. 102 (ill.) [included in section "Opere Espunte [Excluded Works]"].
Fagnart, Laure. Léonard de Vinci en France: Collections et Collectionneurs (XVème–XVIIIème siècles). Rome, 2009, pp. 77, 133 (ill.) [as by attributed to Giampietrino].
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Giampetrino, Salvator Mundi, 16th century, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.21.
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